Breaking! Navy instructor pilots on strike! 100 refusing to fly!

More than 100 Navy instructor pilots have gone on strike refusing to fly due to what they feel is an unsafe T-45 Goshawk training aircraft. The aviators are complaining that the plane’s oxygen system is not functioning properly and making it unsafe to fly the aircraft.

It is being reported that hundreds of training flights have been canceled in about a week’s time.

In the last five years, physiological episodes, caused in part by problems with the oxygen system, have nearly quadrupled on the T-45 training jet, according to Capitol Hill testimony last week by senior naval aviators.

“There is no question that there are problems that are being covered up,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said. “I am very concerned about the issue. It’s been getting worse over time and if you look at the statistics, the older airplanes are having bigger problems than newer airplanes.” – Fox News

Apparently, incidences of oxygen poisoning while flying the Goshawk have been growing at a rapid pace lately with instructor pilots reporting as many as three occurrences per week. The pilots state that there is no warning of when the oxygen system will fail to provide good clean breathable air and that it happens on a random basis causing hypoxic symptoms.

Have any of your ever heard of military pilots going on strike and refusing to fly because of faulty equipment and lack of concern by the chain of command? Share your stories with us if you have.

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Rob R

I didn't think it was a democracy lol

Alan t

Small unmarked and probably unarmed.
I know everyone says it to the point it becomes white noise,but, thank you for your service in whatever acronym outfit you flew for.

HeyNav

Pardon my spelling. Command not commander.

Susan B

This will help fuel the rationale for increasing the defense budget if only Congress will open their eyes and ears to the need instead of trying to make this a "gotcha" situation against the other party. Hopefully, neither party attaches something that will choke the other side. If partisanship shuts the government down again, we all lose.

Old Crow

it's my old callsign while collecting various types of 'int' in small unmarked aircraft here and there. flown off aircraft carriers also.